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A fire was reported around 6:30 p.m. Monday night.at one of the processing units at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. (Published Monday, Aug. 6, 2012)

California's workplace safety regulators concluded their review of a Chevron oil refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday morning, clearing the way for the company to resume full production at the facility.

The Richmond, Calif., refinery had been running at 60 percent capacity since a fire erupted at the plant last August. The California Occupational Safety and Health program had previously issued an order barring use of the refinery's crude distillation unit — the heart of the plant — where the fire broke out.